And it's the same for pretty much all medicine and healthcare costs.

I read somewhere Americans pay $99+ for a bag of saline solution in hospital.

The bag the IV the saline and the tubes all up costs roughly $1 to produce. it's like 50 cents just for the bag and saline if you're using the same needle and tubes for multiple bags.

And that's before the insurance which costs extra.

Like y'all (the Americans reading this) are being price guaged on top of your public spending and insurance already paying for everything.

You are paying 3 times for the same thing that every other country only pays once for, and each of those 3 times you pay you're paying a lot more than people in other countries pay.

Even in countries that do not spend public money on healthcare and totally rely on the private sector they pay less for treatment and medicine.

Your education system is exactly the same.

You have the highest public spending on healthcare and education in the world and at the same time some of the worst outcomes and the highest costs to consumers.

I really can not understand how y'all survive like that.

I really hope your living standards improve and that you can fix the corrupt big pharma and the money laundering it's insane it's been allowed to go on for so long.